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Could Leona Lewis flop?
STACEYFISHER
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Will her new single flop like the last one or will it be a big success for her?
I can't understand many of the things she sings. Her diction is the worst at times.
I haven't heard Trouble on the radio yet.
I can't understand many of the things she sings. Her diction is the worst at times.
I haven't heard Trouble on the radio yet.
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The album so far sounds good, at least 7/10, and it's shaping up to be her best.
Only really peak high because of an X Factor performance. Let's face it, it's the only way she is EVER going to get a platinum album (200,000 even).
There, question answered.
How is it pointless? Just because you refuse to beleive that queen Leona could possibly flop doesn't mean anyone else who dares to raise the question is 'pointless'
I think it's a big possibility. People have forgot about her, of course her hard core fan base (which is quite large) has stuck by her and will stick by her to the very end. But mainstream has moved on. They've picked up their new princess, Emile Sande who's sound is an evolution of Leonas current era. Glassheart isn't going to do her any favours either, whilst a breath of fresh air for her fans, casual listeners, imo, arnt going to buy into it as much as her label would like to think. Collide pt 2 is possibly on the horizon and we need to prepare ourselves :')
Flop is a big word though. Its also a word thats thrown about a lot without really knowing the facts. Alex Burke flopped this year. Deserving or not, she flopped. Echo didn't flop. Undersold? Now that's a different story. I'm almost 100% that this era isn't going to be the big bleeding love moment people want it to be. And all this is coming from a massive leona fan.
But regardless of weather it sells 100 million copies globally or 1000 copies globally, who cares? If your a fan you'll just be happy you've got the album finally and can enjoy the music. Who cares about sales these days realistically anyway?
Is there a series of The X Factor on at the moment?
Oh, yes it seems that there is.
What a coincidence.
That will also flop....
I don't know about you, but I sure do care about sales. I'll be happy that I have the album, but if she flops then ofcourse i'll be worried. It's all about the sales. If Leona doesn't have the sales then it will make everything more difficult for album #4. She'll spend a lot more time trying to figure out what went wrong and her career will probably go on hold. i'll not be able to 'enjoy the music.' And what does that hold for the future then? If she lost sales as time went on she'd inevitably be dropped and we'd hardly have anything from her then.
Though I agree with what you said about Echo. I wouldn't call it a flop, but say it under-performed. Spirit sold 7million of the back of 6 singles. Echo sold nearly 2 million with about 1.5 singles. If SyCo had released maybe 4 singles, then perhaps the album would have hopefully did a little better
If you're a "massive fan" why are you already calling GlassHeart as a flop when it's only been played on the radio? It's got a huge response so far, so you're jumping the gun a bit
Leona is the last of the Syco acts/winners that hasn't so far failed (apart from last year's winning act) so if she can't succeed none of them can.
Her voice, her songs, her look is 100% as far as I'm concerned. She's up there with the best of UK talent.
I would have thought that a flop means 'a unit' brings in less returns than the initial investment - which is quite high with artists at the moment.
If you follow the above 'definition' quite alot of top 40 uk singles artist's exist in flopidom as well.
Trouble with Leona is that alot of 'initial investment' is front-loaded into this equation (although alot less than when she was at her peak).
In the same way - what is chart success - if it's a commercial failure / returns less than initial investment to get that chart success.
There are alot of non-charting (or have minor chart success) artist's who are achieving moderate commercial returns - are these type of artist's flops, due to the fact they are invisible to mainstream media.
SyCo have said the pre orders for GlassHeart are great! I do think Leona will get her 3rd number 1 album and it will go platnium!
She wont ever sell like she used to thats for sure but let's just see when the albums out hey
I really like Trouble, it seems less "X Factor" of all the stuff she's done, if she gets one or two big hits from this album, it may finally make her a proper, massive star, she still relies on X Factor too much for my liking.
I think alot of that comes with the label she's with. Judging by Labrinth's recent comments, it seems an X-Factor performance is compulsory if you're a Syco act.
I didn't say it was pointless because I'm a fan of Leona, although I like some of her music I do see she has a lot of talent, but what I meant when I said it was a pointless thread was because its just created to wind her fans up and be annoying really - Leona has put all this work in and I think she deserves a little bit of credit and not spiteful threads like ' she's gonna fail' grow up!